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of our respected friend, George Cheape, Esq., whose patriotism and public 

 spirit have identified him with so many improvements in the valley : 



" Where Eden warbles through its valley green, 

 And the proud Lomond overlooks the scene." 



We now cross the Frith of Tay, and continue our progress along the east 

 coast. We confine our observations, however, to the views here chosen by the 

 painter as most characteristic of the scenery, or as landmarks in the history 

 of the county. Glammis Castle, belonging to Forfar, we have already described, 

 while skirting the frontier in our preceding sketch of Perthshire, among the 

 views of which it is introduced. Of the county of Forfar, the town and harbour 

 of Dundee in which manufactures and commerce have attained unprecedented 

 success and extent present attractions of the deepest interest to all who 

 delight to contemplate scenes of national prosperity. The town is familiar 

 in the page of history, and has held a prominent station in all the principal epochs 

 in which the nation has cultivated the arts of war or peace. 



" Thy maids are the fairest thy men are the bravest 

 Thy merchants the noblest that venture to sea; 

 And this their indenture ' They prosper that venture," 

 So joy to the commerce of ' bonny Dundee !' " 



The county of Aberdeen is bounded on two sides by the sea, and on that 

 account enjoys a climate sensibly milder than many districts lying more to the 

 south. In proof of this, it is but seldom that snow lies for any length of time 

 in the lower grounds ; and it is a common observation, founded on experience, 

 that when snow is a foot deep in Aberdeen, it is double that depth on the 

 borders of Northumberland. But if the severity of winter be less felt here 

 than in other parts of the country, the influence of a genial spring is also 

 less frequent, so that its equable temperature is modified by disadvantages 

 from which the colder districts are exempt. 



The city of Aberdeen, the seat of two celebrated universities, is divided into 

 the old and the new towns, at an interval of about a mile. Of these, the former 

 now reduced almost to a village appears to have been a town of some note 

 as early as the ninth century, but gradually fell into decay after the great epoch 

 of the Reformation. The Cathedral of St. Machar was founded at the remote 

 era of 1164, and repaired in the beginning of the fourteenth century. But a 

 new building of more elegant design was founded by bishop Kinnimond, the 

 second prelate of that family, and finished by Bishop Leighton, a name already 

 mentioned in these pages. The Reformation, however, suspended all further 



